Talking about adoption, birthparents, abandonment, race, and China with my kids. That's not all we talk about -- but reading this blog, you'll think it's all we do!!!!!

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Back to School ALREADY?!

Not only was summer too short, life's too short, too! Yep, starting tomorrow I have an official third grader and sixth grader, which is frankly impossible since I swear these girls were just in pre-K last week!

So it's that time again, posting about race, adoption, bullying and schools. After all, back-to-school for our families isn't just about new lunchboxes and which uniforms from last year still fit (none of them!). We wonder and worry about how the school will handle a nontraditional family,
how much information to share with teachers about our kids' backgrounds, whether
the dreaded 'family tree' project will crop up this year, whether we've
empowered our kids to handle intrusive questions and racial teasing.

First, links to past posts collecting links on these topics, lots of great links -- start here first, if you haven't been reading the blog for a couple of years:

This article discusses the academic challenges faced by orphanage-raised
children from overseas who have been adopted by American families, causes of
learning problems in adopted children, and major roadblocks at schools due to
misconceptions among school personnel regarding international adoptees. The need
for persistent cognitive and language intervention to make remediation more
effective and reverse detrimental trends in academic performance is
stressed.